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Click for full imageJoachim’s Art Direction: I want an Indian hanging out in a boat with a yellow-thonged alien with a head drawn by a 4 year-old…
Published 1977
(Average: 8.17 out of 10)
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Joachim’s Art Direction: I want an Indian hanging out in a boat with a yellow-thonged alien with a head drawn by a 4 year-old…
Published 1977
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November 15th, 2011 at 9:10 am
If I was the Gillman there, I’d demand a recount in that title. Blatant species-ism!
November 15th, 2011 at 9:24 am
Is Nato’wa lost? Is it the homeland of the Indians? Why is that poor alien doing all the paddling? I might have to investigate this book.
November 15th, 2011 at 9:32 am
That fish-man alien is one of the most amateurish pieces of artwork I’ve ever seen. Full marks for ‘Indian undiscovered homeland’ condescension too.
November 15th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Oh yeah, sure, tell the Native Americans that they really belong in “lost Nato’wa”, so that you can keep the ENTIRE NORTH AMERICAN CONTINENT to yourselves…
Keep it classy, Whitey.
November 15th, 2011 at 1:10 pm
“Fish-man speak with forked tongue!”
“But that’s what my tongue looks like!”
November 15th, 2011 at 1:16 pm
I love how that tagline reads the first time like it has suddenly descended into gibberish.
“In the undiscovered homeland of the Indians oogle bitsy stroop!”
That ‘sentence’ cries out for a verb, and my poor brain so wants to believe that it’s somewhere within “Nato’wa”. Which, by the way, sounds like it might be how Native Americans refer to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
November 15th, 2011 at 2:24 pm
Standing up in a canoe? Dumb, dumb, dumb!
I thought the homeland of the Native Americans was North America.
Out of all the richness of Native American history, what nation to make the guy on the cover? Haida? Tlingit? Creek? Hopi? Zuñi? Navajo? Ojibwa? Mohawk? Cayuga? Oneida? Onondaga? Fox? Winnebago? Seminole? Cherokee? Sioux? Blackfoot?
Nah. Lets dress him in a Sears kids’ costume, circa. 1955.
Honestly, is that fringe on his outfit, or fur trim?
And that canoe … it’s stitched together like a birchbark canoe (albeit sloppier), but that isn’t birch bark.
It looks like the artist’s reference was a couple of toys.
I am aware of the absurdity of criticising the authenticity of a cover which includes a blue frog-man with a bellybutton and incomprehensible hands.
November 15th, 2011 at 2:46 pm
I haven’t read the book, but for all we know the description of the creature from the black lagoon on the cover is “a gilled monster who appears to have been drawn by a 4-year old.”
November 15th, 2011 at 3:38 pm
Actually, Alessandra, a lot of Indians hate being called Native American and their homeland is, in reality, Russia. They immigrated here first. So technically, Russians discovered America.
So obviously the Gillman there is in reality an Indian from Chernobyl.
November 15th, 2011 at 4:23 pm
I guess in lost undiscovered Nato’wa one = two.
November 15th, 2011 at 7:59 pm
Behind you!!!
November 16th, 2011 at 12:38 am
So Running Deer, I guess The Mist Of Transformation was just an old story after all…
November 16th, 2011 at 7:50 pm
I had completely forgotten that I’d submitted this one! And then, I saw that alien, and started laughing like the very first time I cam across this hilarious cover…. wow… Your comments have been fantastic as well!
November 17th, 2011 at 1:42 am
Nothing about this makes any sense. Is Nato’wa the ‘Indian?’ The alien? The lost homeland of the ‘Indians?’ Who is the “One Against A Wilderness” anyway? Is it the ‘Indian,’ or the alien? If it’s just one, why are there two people (word used loosely) in the boat? If he’s a fish man alien thing, why does he need to row the boat instead of swim? EXPLAIN BOOK, EXPLAIN!!
November 17th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
Kyle, I find that books often do a good job of explaining. You just open the cover and read. Of course, once that cover is turned, best to not look at it again; it will only disappoint.
November 23rd, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Frog man: C’mon Jerry, can’t you take a turn at this rowing? My arms are killing me!
Indian: No. You have offended my ancestors by saying that one our totems looked like your uncle Louis.
November 28th, 2011 at 5:53 pm
I… I like the fish man. Even if he reminds me of Vaporeon.
November 27th, 2015 at 11:42 pm
Needs a ‘native Americans’ or ‘American Indians’ or ‘First Nations’, or even ‘Amerindians’, tag.
I’m not such a fan of the blurb, it looks like part of it has gone missing. ‘In the undiscovered homeland of the Indians, lost Nato’wa half of the sentence. Probably, fell it between the love seat cushions.’
November 28th, 2015 at 4:34 am
‘The Last of the Mohicans’ starring Lon Chaney Jr. & Ricou Browning.
November 28th, 2015 at 9:24 am
Is the other guy a Warsaw’wa, then?
December 17th, 2015 at 10:40 pm
The canoe is sinking . . .
December 18th, 2015 at 6:46 am
The fish-man with fins growing from his head is looking at the two feathers in the all-purpose Native American’s hat and wondering if his passenger is taking the piss.
December 18th, 2015 at 9:28 am
@Tat Wood: Could be the other thing …making it even more awkward.
April 16th, 2016 at 10:22 pm
All in all, I think I’m rooting for the wilderness.
April 19th, 2016 at 8:22 am
You know what we need? A novel where American Indians discover that white Europeans are really aliens whose “lost homeland” is on Mars… nya ha ha!
July 13th, 2018 at 5:10 am
In reviewing the many brilliant gambits and queries of this twice-told thread, I find key questions mysteriously still unanswered, like, if it’s one against the homeland why are there two in the canoe? is the country “lost” or “undiscovered”? same question for the verb in the sentence. But most chilling of all is the prescience of jami (9) who, seven years ago, predicted what Putin would say to Trump when they meet next week, followed by “and we want it back, da?”
Gillman, who is indeed from Chernobyl, is also an FSB agent trying to persuade Jay Silverheels to send disinformation smoke signals through the Cloudnet.
I have to say this: we apologize, and, three cheers for the baby blimp!
July 13th, 2018 at 10:28 am
Frodo and Sam crossing the Anduin after the Fellowship breaks up, original illustration from the Red Book of Westmarch.
July 13th, 2018 at 5:41 pm
If it’s their homeland, how can it be undiscovered?
July 13th, 2018 at 6:23 pm
@Tor: ask Rick Steves. He does it all the time. Or posh British people in the Dordogne. Or any restaurant critic.
July 13th, 2018 at 8:51 pm
I know we are all distracted by the fish-roe-er so I need to point out: that is one kick-ass canoe!
July 13th, 2018 at 10:24 pm
Sit down dude. If you tip that canoe you’re both going to flounder.
July 14th, 2018 at 2:30 am
Gill-Man is probably thinking “Sit down, dummy. I’ll be fine if I fall in, but you won’t. Also, I am a fish-man, why the hell am I in a canoe? Why did I get this jerk instead of a mute cleaning lady who has the hots for me?”
That blurb is… racist and ungrammatical (see comment #26 and write the joke yourself).
I’m convinced the guy is Nato’wa. He’s lost. And confused a homeland with something undiscovered. I don’t think his outfit goes with the canoe either, tribally.
Is it One against the wilderness because he’s a confused wanna-bee “Indian” who’s handcuffed to the canoe, and Gill-Man is taking him to the loony bin for his own safety?
In the shining steep cliff waters,
Lost Nato’wa all his marbles.
OR, is he a cigar-store statue and Gill-Man is the One on a quest to bring this bit of kitsch through the wilderness?